Gagosian Gallery in New York presents Richard Avedon: Murals & Portraits through July 12th. Avedon’s twenty to thirty-five foot wide murals and related portraits, from the 1960s and ’70s, picture high profile individuals like Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, and political radicals The Chicago Seven.

A press release and checklist are available on the Gagosian website, along with 11 images from the show and 10 installation views.

Dates Friday, May 4th, 2012 – Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Time Gallery hours

Monday through Saturday: 10a.m.–6p.m.

The gallery will be closed Saturday, May 26 & Monday, May 28 for a national holiday

Photographer Yto Barrada

Featured Speaker of the Third Annual Arnold Newman Lecture Series

Thursday, October 20, 2011
6 – 7 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Join Moroccan and French artist Yto Barrada, who will present the third annual Arnold Newman lecture series. Based in Tangier, Morocco, Barrada is known for creating artworks that explore the subtle borders that separate people, countries, and cultures. Her books include A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project: (1998-2004) and the newly published Riffs.

Barrada is the director and co-founder of the Cinematheque de Tanger. Her photographs and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennale. She was awarded Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year in 2011.

The Arnold Newman lecture series on contemporary photography is made possible with generous funding from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation. The series features leading contemporary photographers discussing issues in the medium today.

If you are feeling inspired by the exhibition, why not submit your own creative self-portrait or photo of a photographer to the MIA’s Facing the Lens Flickr group? Your photos will be featured in the gallery and also on the MIA’s Web site. Please include your name, title of photo, and the date the photo was taken. Images should be at least 1200 pixels wide and appropriate for the general public. Click here for more information on the MIA’s Flickr project.

The exhibition runs Friday, January 21, 2011 to Sunday, August 28, 2011 in the Harrison Photography Gallery 365. Free admission.

I am pleased to announce that Angela Strassheim’s new series, Evidence, will be featured in New Pictures 4, March 17 – October 9, 2011, in the Perlman Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Evidence brings together Strassheim’s forensic photography training with her long-standing investigation of the dark undercurrents of American domestic life. The New Pictures series, now in its second year, features experimental photography and new media art by artists from around the world. Please stay tuned for more details on Strassheim’s exhibition, which will include a small installation on the history of crime photography.